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minister's fight against hamas in recent polls. hear why some say they want hamas dealt with once and for all. hello. and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> i'm errol barnett. with you here as cnn continues its special coverage. >> we start with gaza. where health officials say shelling mixed with u.n. civilian shelter today, as left eight wounded. but no deaths inside the facility. >> this comes as a strike on another u.n. shelter killed more than a dozen people just a day earlier. meantime, israel's military tells cnn it's calling up 16,000 additional reservists to fight hamas in gaza. for those of you keeping track, that makes 86,000 reservists called up since the conflict began july 8th.

>> palestinian health officials say more than 1,300 people have been killed in the fighting. the u.n. says at least 70% were civilians. israel reports 56 soldiers killed in battle. and three civilians killed by rockets fired into israel. >> u.n. chief ban ki-moon it was israel that bombed a crowded shelter on wednesday. 20 people were killed in incident. we have to warn you, some of what you're about to see is graphic. >> reporter: northern gaza, around 5:00 a.m. the u.n. school turned shelter for 3,000 people just attacked. a u.n. employee took these cell phone images, breathing heavily he races classroom to classroom.

body count by flashlight, mutilated limbs swaddled in bloody rags. [speaking foreign language]. >> reporter: we saw the shells when they hit and shrapnel was falling like rain. i was so scared and the school filled with smoke. we poured water in our eyes just to see. i want to give you a point of reference, how big this hole is. the diameter is about the length of an ordinary broomstick. another round through a classroom. opening a hole about the same size as the other. witnesses say this is some of the shrapnel that peppered the school. they notified of the coordinates of the shelter, just eight hours before it was hit. cnn asked the israeli military

if their forces fired on the school that was supposed to be a safe haven. >> what we found is there were mortars launched from nearby the school and there was a crossfire and indeed they engaged those mortar firing. we're currently reviewing the outcome and tragic footage that we've seen from this area. we haven't ruled out it was a hamas mortar that landed within the premises. >> reporter: un investigators say they have sufficient evidence to conclude israel was to blame. >> based on the initial elements that we have, clear indications that we have three projectiles hit the school and on presenting and analyzing the pieces of shrapnel, we believe that we have all the elements in place to conclude it was israeli artillery fire. >> reporter: israel has batteries aimed at gaza, these huge guns are capable of firing

43 kilo shells the entire length of the gaza strip. israel admitted misfiring a mortar into another u.n. school shelter less than a week ago. but the israeli military says the explosion could not have caused deaths. a cnn visit showed multiple shrapnel marks and large quantities of blood. hospital staff said 16 civilians died in the incident. >> enough is enough. now measures have to be taken. people who go to these places expect that they go there because they will be safe and here is the confirmation, it appears there is nowhere to be safe and measures have to be taken by the defense forces to ensure much better protection. >> reporter: the u.n. condemned hamas for violating the worlds of war, accusing fighters or storing rockets in three other vacant schools. >> whatever was the case with these weapons, certainly cannot be used as a justification by

anyone to explain why another school in which the people were sheltered displaced people were sheltered had been targeted. >> reporter: the israeli military says it does not deliberately target civilians. at the school gates, this bloody footnote to the tragedy. donkeys and horses had very dirt poor families here when their homes turned into a battle field, but war plotted in behind them. karl pehnole, cnn, gaza. >> just some devastating scenes there. and the latest violence, has the u.s. urging israel to do more to protect civilians. it's also supplying its close ally with more ammunition to carry on the fight. the u.s. has approved israel's request for mortar rounds and ammunition for grenade launchers. the supply will come from a billion-dollar stockpile the u.s. keeps in israel. a u.s. defense official tells cnn, this was not an emergency

sale. the international push for a cease-fire between israel and hamas has done nothing to resolve the conflict. but a recent opinion poll shows that most israelis don't want a cease-fire. they want the hamas threat eliminated. >> reporter: from the tel aviv seashore, to the israeli gaza border and beyond. the support is clear -- we're with you. hebrew signs say it with words, the people prove it with deeds. volunteers cook free meals, the sound of war booms behind them, in easy striking distance from gaza. this is who they're doing it for -- the soldiers on the battlefield. the message -- we are with you. two opinion polls done to measure support for israel's "operation protective edge" revealed that up to 95% of israeli jews are against a cease-fire. what they really want is hamas dealt with once and for all.

>> hamas is a terrorism. and terrorism, they hurt every corner in the world. we just have to put -- take them out from gaza. >> reporter: rezy says he's happy with living side-by-side with palestinians, but hamas is a different thing. netanyahu's plan to destroy the tunnel system in gaza got a pat on the back from tel aviv. >> we have to continue. we have a lot of work to do there. otherwise they will find a way to come inside. you know all the tunnels, and i don't know the names, and we have to destroy everything. >> reporter: for this young lady it's deeply personal. she's to be married soon, but her fiance is a soldier on the front lines. he's in gaza somewhere, and we're afraid, she says. we shouldn't stop fighting, we shouldn't compromise.

we sat down with a former head of mossad, israel's top intelligence agency, about what it would take to fulfill the sentiment. >> it calls for conquering the gaza. >> reoccupation? >> reoccupation, no doubt. >> reporter: he says the price of that will be higher, costing lives and money. >> it means we will have to stay in gaza with relatively largely deployed forces for two, three, four years. >> reporter: the former spy chief initially did not support the decision to put israeli boots on the ground in gaza. but he admits something to us spy chiefs rarely do. >> now i understand that i was wrong, because only with this ground operation we can't discover those tunnels. >> reporter: political analyst marcus chef says the support is for netanyahu and his defense and army chiefs is remarkable. >> i can't remember an

administration which has had so much support from the israeli people. >> reporter: but the polls did not include palestinian with his israeli citizenships, sometimes referred to as israeli-arabs. those we spoke with wanted the offensive to stop in gaza. but even peace rallies wanting an end to the war were met with support until hamas is crushed. the day's other big stories coming up for you next. international investigators cannot get to the crash site of flight 17. but a cnn team makes it through the rebel roadblocks in eastern ukraine. we'll show you what they found. plus, care packages from moscow. we'll see who is sending support to the separatists. [ male announcer ] if you had a dollar for every dollar

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disease since april. 319 in guinea. 224 in sierra leone. and 129 in liberia. the impact on liberia is smaller, compared to its other two neighbors. but the government there is not taking any chances. it's closed all schools in the country. shout dun markets along border areas. and put nonessential staff on leave. this is in addition to earlier orders to tighten the country's borders. liberia's information minister told cnn he expects the situation to deteriorate before any improvements are seen. listen. >> it is the belief of the government that this situation, our health facilities, our health care workers are overtaxed. and certainly overstressed. the matter here has reached crisis point.

it is now, rather than just a liberian problem or a sierra leone problem, it is an international problem. we need all of the international help and assistance we can get. and the diagnosis is that it will get worse before it gets better. >> liberia's information minister added his government is considering quarantines in some areas and cremating bodies. the ebola outbreak is centered in west africa. but authorities around the world are watching the epidemic very closely. >> reporter: this doctor saved more than 100 patients from ebola. but he became another victim of the virus on tuesday. hailed as a national hero in sierra leone, he is one of a

number of health workers who died on the front line with the disease. concern over ebola is spreading even faster than the virus itself. >> obviously, this is a threat which we need to take seriously. >> reporter: this week, in england, a suspected case of ebola tested negative. but top british officials held an emergency meeting to talk about how to prepare for any potential cases. >> by meeting to look at the issues, to evaluate the evidence, we are acting early to make sure that we put in place any necessary precautionary measures to keep the u.k. safe. >> reporter: hong kong, which has been hit before by outbreaks of the sars virus and bird flu, is now on high alert for ebola. >> we're concerned about ebola virus disease in three west afric african country. >> reporter: a woman became ill after a trip to kenya. she tested negative for the virus. hong kong has not imposed any

travel restrictions. but has put early detection measures in place to contain any cases. the virus has killed one american and infected two u.s. aid workers in west africa. but doctors say the risk of ebola spreading in the u.s. is remote. it's not airborne. it can only pass through physical contact. >> even if we had a case in the united states. the likelihood of extensive spread is extremely small. >> reporter: even a small chance that the ebola virus could spread, has many health officials concerned. we'll be back in a moment. stay with us.

in eastern ukraine, has prevented international investigators from reaching the malaysia airlines crash site for a fourth day now. >> we talked about the frustrations this creates was a there's still unanswered questions. the rebels may have mined the road and positioned heavy weapons in the area. but nick payton walsh took another route to the site. he found it littered with debris and the final possessions of last lives. watch this.

>> reporter: a horror still unresolved. 12 days since mh-17 was blown out of the sky. it remains here, a monument to cruelty. to how 298 souls, some shipped in parts away on a separatists train have yet to find complete rest. questions left what or who else did they love? did they feel in their last moments? the silence in these fields is that of a tomb-like sorrow and loss, isolated from the war around it but you really have to stand here and see the things people wanted to take with them on holiday and horrifyingly, even know, smell, the stench of decay to understand the urgency for relatives of those who died here must feel to get inspectors

to the site and get some kind of closure. in the hour we were there, no separatists inspectors or ukrainian soldiers at this site. just distant smoke that explains why the inspectors' large convoy has not for the fourth day running got here. god save and protect us the sign asks, not here. still reeking of jet fuel. where you can see the heat of the inferno they fell from the sky in. strangers have tried to mourn. the scene of this crime has been abandoned, evidence tampered with, what must be shrapnel holes visible and the cockpits remain, a wallet emptied, a cell phone looted. traces of daydreams that fell from the jet stream into a war where daily horrors took their

lives. whose blind hatred has yet to find space for the minor dignities they deserve. nick payton walsh, cnn, ukraine. russia has been fighting back from the latest u.s. and european sanctions. it announced a ban on fruit and vegetable imparts with poland. and one that could extend the measure to the e.u. that's a $3 billion a year business. the g-7 is warning russia to end its support for separatist forces in eastern ukraine. the group is threatening sanctions of its own if russia doesn't change course. threats from europe and the u.s. are not hurting vladimir putin's popularity in russia. it's currently at an all-time high. and groups of volunteers in moscow are lending their support to rebels across the border in ukraine. >> reporter: a donations tent for the people. hardly noticed as life bustles

past. beyond the newsstands, it's hard to get a sense of the political heat that russia is in for its role in eastern ukraine, as they bask in the summer sun. and then, there is the odd reminder. here, down in moscow's side streets, a patch of rebel-held area. the flag of the people's republic flying over what is normally a cossack brigade headquarters. there's a delivery, sealed wooden boxes. humanitarian supplies we're told. no weapons. to add to the food supplies, the piles of donated clothes, all en route to eastern ukraine. this local shows me a clip from a station who is similar in style to russia's 24. this was monday. terrible images of civilians killed after an apartment block was shelled.

the city council confirming this building came under ukrainian fire on monday. you need to watch this to understand that the ukraian army is not dropping flowers. these women don't want to be identified. scared of payback back home, they say. putin has nothing to do with this, this woman says. it was the ukraian army that started it. what is happening now is genocide against the ukrainian people. here, they want russia's president to send in troops. to end a conflict they still firmly believe is a fight against fascism. today's bloody rebellion framed by the paranoias of the world war ii past. let's cross the world of weather now. at least 18 people are dead from landslides in western india, according to recent reports we're getting into cnn. >> this was the scene wednesday, as torrential rains hit a village outside mumbai. reports say as many as 200

people could be trapped under that rubble. landslides are common in the area during its annual rainy season. man soon. >> and prior to all of these monsoons coming in, it had been unusually quiet, hasn't it pedram? that led us to believe it was going to come back with a vengeance in some way. >> it does every year. it seems to try to make up some ground. in the past couple weeks, 50% below normal in the monsoon rainfall department. now, down to 25% below normal. that number on the increase. from the first of june, the latter portion of july. the red line indicates the normal level of rain for the monsoon season. and the green bars the actual rainfall that's come down. the vast majority stayed below the normal line. and spiked right above the normal values in recent days. that's led to this tremendous amount of rainfall. and the concern to around 24%

below average. increased rainfall causing some issues for some people across this region. the satellite perspective showing you, as it moves over the subcontinent here. there's a restaurant here in the northeastern corner of india, called the rain drop cafe. it's one of my favorite restaurants in the world that i've never been to. this region actually, the wettest spot on our planet. holds the record, that area, has seen as much as 1,042 inches of rainfall in a year. or 26 meters of water come down from the skies in 12 months. remarkable there. you see the rainfall totals in recent days in the region. this amount of rainfall is what's caused all of the issues. 100-plus millimeters, four to six inches, have come down in a 24-hour period. the community that errol and rosemary being on a hillside, the heavy amount of water saturating the soil. the slope cannot hold the weight

of all of the moisture that's absorbed. and the slope fails. and the communities and some 44 homes, believed to have been flattened here by the landslides in recent days. and we know this occurred around 4:00 in the morning local time. not a good time for a landslide to occur. when you have that happen, when the vast majority of people are sleeping, it makes it that much more devastating. and the scenes coming out of the village, showing you what we're talking about. a closer perspective on all of this. you talk about this region of india, we take you out towards portions of mumbai, plenty of rainfall comes down typically this time of year. but when you interaction it with hillsides like this, and villages across the hillsides, this devastation is bound to happen every year. that's what we see frequently in this part of the world, guys. >> the earth-moving conditions look like toys compared to the task that's ahead to move all that. >> it is monumental. we will take a short break

now. just ahead, as hamas and israel continue to attack each other, israel will beefing up its military presence. details on the latest callup of reservists. plus, the angry backlash against israel's military operation in gaza. unlimited cash back.

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. >> here's the biggest stories we're following at this moment. the u.s. house of representatives has approved a resolution given the chamber speaker the authority to sue president barack obama. the move came after heated and a partisan debate coming down along party lines. republicans say mr. obama misused his power with health care reform. details on when a lawsuit will be filed have not been announced. john kerry is in india, set to meet with the indian prime minister during this visit. kerry is the highest-ranking member of the obama administration to visit india

since the indian leader was elected. he was previously banned from visiting the u.s., after muslim riots in his state. on day 28 of the israel/hamas conflict, israel called up 15,000 reservists. 86,000 have been called up since the fighting began. the death toll has crossed 1,300. israel reports 59 deaths, 56 of them soldiers. gaza's health ministry reports shells near a u.n. school housing displaced residents today, slightly wounding eight people. >> israel says it's investigating an attack on a marketplace that killed at least 17 people. >> we're seeing the attacks take place in the past few days. the media agency on the scene of the market attack, shot quite graphic video of the aftermath of what took place. one cameraman began to shoot and was knocked out by the first attack. and someone else picked up the

camera to continue shooting. a really disturbing images, john vause has that and more from gaza city. >> reporter: israel's military offensive about to end its 24th day, the longest ever between israel and militants in gaza. one of the deadliest attacks happened on wednesday, during what was meant to be a cease-fire. the israelis announced a four-hour humanitarian window. they would hold their cease-fire if hamas did, as well. and israel responded with a number of quick strikes. and it seems a marketplace may have been hit, as many as three times. that's according to witnesses. there's graphic video from the scene some viewers find these images very disturbing. what they show, ambulances rushing to the scene. people coming out to help the wounded.

and what seems to be another explosion, followed by a third explosion. these are graphic images that were broadcast on television. they show many victims who lost limbs. others covered in blood. and bodies blown apart. one hamas official saying the area was busy because many thought this four-hour cease-fire was in place. there was no warning that israel 'cause about to respond as they said, they would to that repeated hamas rocket fire. all the time it seems, civilians are bearing the brunt of this conflict. right now, it is dark across gaza because this is another night without electricity. water pumps are not working. the sewage system in many places. the infrastructure of gaza, which was creeky and shaky at best, is taking a pounding. and the growing civilian death toll, we keep talking about, in gaza, prompted the

white house to, again, ask israel to do more to protect civilians. it made a request two weeks ago, off four boys were killed on a gaza beach. >> the u.s. agreed to resupply israel with ammunition from an american stockpile kept inside israel. that brought a rebuke from the palestinian representative to the u.s. take a listen. >> i think the world has to wake up. the united states has to wake up. and urge israel to stop this bloodshed and this carnage. it is shameful that the united states is replying ammunition to a country that is committing right now war crimes. >> israel's ambassador to the u.s. is confidencing his nation's actions in gaza. in an interview with cnn's anderson cooper, ron durhamer says it's a result of hamas tactics. >> we do not target civilians,

period. we do not target civilians. in a war, where you have people embedded in the civilian population, a dense area, any war, even the one that is the most surgical, the most careful, the most cautious, doing everything to get civilians out of harm's way, you're going to have civilian casualties. and that's a tragedy. but the responsibility for that tragedy has to be placed at the foot of hamas. if we don't do it again, they're going to do it over and over again because that's part of their strategy. >> you also have this development into cnn. a booby-trapped tunnel killed three israeli soldiers in southern gaza. the military says explosive devices detonated as the soldiers were uncovering the tunnel. hamas tunnels are the primary focal point of israel's mission in gaza. and jim chute toe is showing us hamas has released a video showing how effective they can be. >> reporter: it's a riveting

insider's view of what hamas and israel says was a daring, deadly attack on israeli forces in broad daylight. they approach the israeli outpost, filming every step. and fire on one soldier. and then, another. who appears to scream as he's taken down. hamas claims their fighters killed ten israelis. israeli defense forces say five were killed, plus one of the attackers. they later returned to safety through the same tunnel. israeli leaders have identified this growing network of tunnels as the main target of the ongoing offensive in gaza, which they say will not stop until the tunnels are finally dealt with. >> translator: we will not finish the operation without neutralizing the tunnels, which have the sole purpose of destroying our citizens, killing our children.

>> reporter: during israeli's military operations in gaza, israeli forces have discovered some 30 different tunnels. and have destroyed about half of them so far. the tunnels run as far as two miles from gaza into israel. they burrow keep into the ground and are very narrow. about six feet high and 2 1/2 feet across. retired u.s. army general mark hurtling says the tunnels are a growing threat to israelty security. >> we like to use the word asimilar metric. with the israel dis have the technological edge, this is hamas' way to counter that. >> reporter: they say the attackers tried to take the body of a dead israeli soldier with them but were prevented when they took fire from other israeli troops. and these tunnels are used for

other purposes, as well, including transporting militants and weapons and packing them with explosives under israeli positions and blowing them up. they are an increasing threat. j there's a fueling backlash against israel in the u.s. and in europe. and many feel angry protests may lead to more attacks on jews. deborah feyerick reports. >> reporter: from the west coast. >> five, six, seven, eight. >> reporter: to the east. >> stop the genocide. >> reporter: anti-israel protests are gaining momentum and getting nasty. almost 200 rallies across america since fighting intensified weeks ago between israel and hamas. pro-palestinian demonstrators with signs and slogans show

images of hitler, the holocaust, and apartheid, images say oren segal that confuse historical facts and fan the flames of religious intolerance. >> it conflates issues that people may have with issues with israel with issues they have with jews that is anti-semitism. and that's what is dangerous. >> reporter: segal heads the center on extremism for the jewish anti-defamation league which tracks protests. >> increasingly it's not just israel or israelis that are being compared to hitler and the nazis, it's jews. so, the focus for many of the people at the rallies is to demonize jews. they don't see the difference. >> reporter: europe has seen a rise in anti-semitic attacks over the last few weeks, most blatantly, jewish-owned businesses vandalized and one burned in paris after an anti-israel rally. the u.k. has also reported a spike. more than 100 incidents reported. and america is not immune. smaller acts of vandalism directed not towards israeli

institutions, but toward synagogues, like the one in miami sprayed with nazi swastikas, the word jew written in cream cheese on a car. the adl says anti-semitic hate speech is spreading on social media sites and online hackers have targeted synagogue websites with claims denying the holocaust. zead ramadan with the islamic american group care warns the rise in anti-semitism could trigger an anti-muslim backlash, like this flier found in a brooklyn neighborhood. >> i think the rhetoric has to be contained to the point of the questioning of human rights. and to the question of politics, but not anti-jewish. >> reporter: no one can say whether the level of anger and violence in europe will spread to the u.s., but some american jews fear that the growing anti-semitic rhetoric and hate speech could reach levels not seen in generations. deborah feyerick, cnn, new york. coming up after the break

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now, that's progressive. welcome back to cnn. for the third time in 28 years, argentina is now in default. two days of talks in new york have failed to avert disaster for buenos aires. the economy minister, seen here, said wednesday that two holdout creditors had rejected an offer he made to settle a payment dispute. these are his thoughts on the current situation. listen.

>> translator: what the volter wants want, which constitutes 1% of all bondholders, is they need paid 92% of the restructured bondholders. this i talked about many times. i repeated it today. before the fund suing us, it can't be done. can't be done. >> now, it was also thought the nation's banks might pay off those entities. but that never materialized. it's not going to happen. analysts fear a currency devaluation. >> the big question, how did argentina get here? let's take a look, facing its third default in 28 years. well, it actually dates back to debts sold before the country's last crisis. when argentina defaulted in 2001. bondholders were faced with a dilemma. either accept lower payments, around 30 cents on the dollar.

or hold out for the full amount. more than 90% of bondholders cut their losses and took the lower offer. the so-called bond swaps have been paid on time ever since. some bondholders, however, held out. they're demanding the full amount plus interest, around $1.5 billion. last month, the u.s. judge ruled that if argentina doesn't pay them, it can't pay its bond swep swaps on thursday. pay both or default. turning to europe, now. and spain, the leaders of the independence movement are vowing to move forward with a referendum. the regional president met wednesday in madrid with the prime minister. and according to news agency reports, government negotiators did not change their position that the november 9th referendum on the region's future is illegal. but proinspect officials think they're movement has fallen victim to political foot-dragging.

>> translator: there's no prose poll proposal from the stateside to remind them that the confrontation is illegal. there are possibilities to turn it into legal consultation. if there are sufficient political will to do so. but today on this issue, there has been no agreement. >> as the country finds itself increasingly in financial trouble, independence leaders say the move would make economic sense. the european union has publicly named the targets of its latest sanctions against russia. among them are eight associates of russian president vladimir putin and three state-owned companies. one of the most prominent individuals is a long-time friend and judo sparring partner of mr. putin, whose companies have been beneficiaries of state contracts. and mr. putin's first deputy chief of staff, the u.s. says he

has steered russian media to favor the separatists and the annexation of crimea. on the corporate side, a state-owned company that manufactures anti-aircraft weapons. and the russian national commercial bank, which is u.s. says has taken over substantial banking operations in crimea. the u.s. says five of the six leading russian financial institutions are now on the sanctions list. after listening to all this, needless to say, russia is furious about the new sanctions. its foreign ministry says it will harm u.s./russian ties. the sanctions could work but they could backfire. >> the intent of these sanctions is to change the political dynamics inside of russia. to persuade the russians that

the cost of carrying on their current policies is too great. but you know, one of the problems is, that there's a nationalism that arises when one country tries to force another country to do what it wants. and so, there's always the danger that rather than pushing the political process in one direction, it could actually push it in the other direction. >> what might help russia's economy? russian president vladimir putin may be betting that the casino industry will give a boost to the economy in a country. >> he has signed a new law legalizing gambling in sochi and crimea. tom foreman reports. >> reporter: las vegas is the reigning king of american gambling cities, ahead of overseas glamour sites like the bahamas, paris, or monte carlo. but now look who is putin on the ritz.

the russian president wants to turn both places into gambling hot spots. with world-class casinos, high rollers and tourism, tourism, tourism. bad bet? maybe not says the director for the center of gaming research in nevada, david schwartz. >> i think the gambling has opened up a lot of governments to the potential there. >> reporter: it's true. in the past decade, macaw has expanded its operation, with $45 billion in gambling revenue last year alone. singapore has surged into the top five. and crimea, before the recent conflict was a pretty successful tourist destination. russian officials estimate a good gambling operation could craw an extra 600,000 people yearly.

>> probably take a year or two, depending on how much they have to build. in sochi, they have the hotel and facilities and other things. >> reporter: but as casino points out, gambling is a risky business. >> people got to win sometimes. >> now, you're insulting my inintelligence. >> reporter: the russians are being hammered for their actions in crimea. powerful political foes are betting the russian sanctions will break the bank. >> this is a choice that russia, and president putin in particular, has made. >> reporter: the russians are showing no doubts about this game of ruble roulette. and putin, like usual, is wearing his poker face. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> all right. coming up after the break, a little girl finds out some hard truths about life. although she wasn't smiling, you might, just a little.

two interesting things happening globally as far as weather is concerned. there's tropical storms simultaneously threatening east asia. and weather moving into the eastern u.s. i can say it's cooler than it is usually this time of year. >> our meteorologist, he can explain what's going on. >> a little bit. let's show you what's happening here. the two storms that errol is referring to, one this hour west of guam. brought in tremendous rainfall in the last couple of days over guam. and we have another area of forming into a tropical storm. both of them, eyeing portions of east asia at this hour. we've had wind reports of 100 kilometers per hour, roughly 60 miles per hour. rainfall, that's as staggering as it gets. that's one foot of rainfall in one day. 300 millimeters causing floods across this region. the storm system is over open

waters. it's xpded to strengthen to get up to category 1 equivalent of a hurricane. and later next week, southern japan, okinawa, going to be in the path of this storm system. a few days left as far as preparations are concerned. to the west of this, another storm system that will develop rapidly. this one expected to push in towards the korean peninsula. south korea going to be in the path of heavy rainfall in the coming days, associated with that. want to take you to japan. tokyo, sweltering summer heat baking this region. we know 15 people have lost their lives in the last several weeks. 8,000 people have been admitted to the hospitals here because of heat exhaustion. the temperatures, around 100 degrees. 37 celsius. tokyo at 32, in the low 90s fahrenheit, well above average for this region. take you out towards tokyo disney. the cast members spraying a bucket of water towards the guests. this is a summer attraction called mini's tropical splash. when your temps around 100

fahrenheit, it's the thing to do across this region of the world. speaking of the temperatures, 100 across portions of the southwest. look at the color contours in the yellow and the green. the green indicating temperatures in the 40s in the morning hours across the upper american united states. and you come towards the southeast. and the yellow indications are temperatures in the 70s fahrenheit. about 22, 23 degrees celsius. october 15th. that's when you should have a 76-degree day in memphis, tennessee. that's what it will be like on thursday afternoon. and temperatures, september-like for portions of the region. atlanta, september 12th, you should have san 84-degree temperatures. and that's what thursday's forecast looks like across that region. welcome air across this region. >> cooler than usual now. with the monsoons, it's going to get back the heat. >> i don't mind, actually. i'm finding it too chilly,

coming back from the bahamas, where it's lovely and warm. >> thank you. >> thank you. as the rolling stones famously said, you can't always get what you want. >> is that right? well, an online clip of an american toddler learning truth about life, has many saying how adorable. jeanne moos tooked to the disappointed but cute little girl's mother. >> reporter: move over peter pan. ♪ i won't grow up >> reporter: 5-year-old sadie miller wants her baby brother, carson, in neverland. >> i don't want to grow up. >> you want him to stay little forever? >> yeah. he's so cute. >> reporter: the phoenix, arizona, toddler's meltdown is melting millions of hearts on youtube. >> she has been in love with him since the day he came home from the hospital. >> reporter: what can a guy do but smile and spit up at his inconsolable big sis. >> you are so cute.

i love your cute, little smiles. >> i was making this video because i wanted her to see in ten years how funny this is. >> reporter: we've seen plenty of kiddie meltdowns. from 4-year-old jack, beside himself because apple switched to the ios 7 operating system. >> you have to get used to it. >> no. i don't like it. >> reporter: to abigail, sick to death of the 2012 election campaign. >> i'm tired of barack obama and mitt romney. >> the election will be over soon okay? >> okay. >> reporter: but there was something deeper. something existential about sadie's rant. >> i don't want wanna die when i'm 100. it. >> reporter: it turns out that sadie started bringing up the possibility of her own death. >> you won't die until you're like 100. that caused her to be more upset.

>> reporter: her fears of aging and dying had commentators commiserating. this is what we're all doing on the inside for every moment of our short, pathetic lives, wrote another. i could watch this child's breakdowns and musings on the permanency of death all day. there's a two-word phrase for that. drama queen. >> that word has been used at this house a lot. >> reporter: speaking of drama. does little sadie remind you of anyone. say a certain sally. >> you can't just do that. >> reporter: that would be sally draper, daughter of don draper. forget "mad men." we're talking about a mad sister. >> oh, my gosh. he is little. ♪ i'll never grow up never grow up ♪ >> reporter: jeanne moos, season season, new york. >> you just want to bring her a bit of joy, don't you? >> i know. i love that. and the baby's like, this is great. i'm loved. soak it up. >> it's going to be interesting

to check back in in a few years. >> yes. see if love is being shared between the two. >> and that does it for this hour of cnn at cnn special coverage. thanks for watching. i'm rosemary church. >> i'm errol barnett. we'll be back with the day's biggest stories after this short break. so what's this?

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